Q2 Class agendas (2015)

Crucible last voicemails
Stages of grief?
Writing with active voice


Wed 1

Fri 27
#7:  Field Trip, The Ghost Soldiers, Night Life, The Lives of the Dead

Wed 25
#6: Speaking of Courage, Notes, In the Field, Good Form
 Dear America pt. 2?

Mon 23
Intro to SketchUp
#5: The Man I Killed, Ambush, Style, Women in Vietnam

Thurs 19
Field trip
Homework: evaluate a monument
#4: Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong, Stockings, Church

Tues 17

• Grade sheets 
• Slang & Acronyms
• Discussion
• Intro to project
• Homework: Propose topic - due Sat.
• #3: How to Tell a True War Story, The Dentist

Fri 13

• Turn in permission slips, Crucibles
• Guest speaker
• #2: Reading #2: On the Rainy River, Enemies, Friends

Wed 11

• "Dear America" pt 1
• Reading #1: The Things They Carried, Love, Spin

Mon 9

• CrucibleAIII-IV quiz
• SOL review - TestNav, SMARTY
• Extra credit - crucible?

Thurs 5
(AP - Calc)

• Computer checks
• Field trip forms
• Applegrams
• Act IV

Tues, May 3

• Vocab quiz
• Grade vocab & reading quizzes
• Act III

Friday, April 29

• Essay corrections
• Act I-II quiz
• SOL practice - passages

Wed. April 27

• Laptop restart?
• Finish Act II, addendum for homework
• In-text citations and formatting full citations
• Practice citing

Monday, April 25

(Chat day)

• Monday Musing#12
• Grade sheets
• Vocab quiz 
• Begin Act II
• New vocab

Thursday, April 21

• (Fire drill)
• Student council voting
• Finish Act I
• Discuss power
• Review vocab

Tuesday, April 19

• Vocab quiz
• New vocab
• Crucible video 
• Begin reading

Friday, April 15

• Finish Sinners annotations
• Quizlet live?
• Selecting characters, prop master
• Character explanations

Wednesday, April 13

• Open notes quiz
• Finish grade sheets
• New vocab
• Sinners in the hands

Monday, April 11

• Puritan religious values quiz
• Monday Musing - respond to cultural values quiz
• (lunch)
• Philosophical chairs
• Begin homework
• Grade sheets & calculations
• Homework: read beginning of Act I, Puzzle of Salem

Thursday, March 31

• Citation
• Essay drafting & revision
• Grade check-ins

Tuesday,  March 29
several students out for 8th grade tours

• Announcements
• Thai fishing (5:00)
• Thesis submission 
• Finish video note-taking
• Review of rhetorical strategies: pathos, ethos, logos, counterargument & rebuttal, analogy, strategic silence, sensory language, imperative statements, syllogism
• Essay drafting

Friday, March 25

• Do now: define slavery
•  Overview of how slavery touches average American consumer
• State Dept examples of human trafficking
• Slavery = work for little or no pay, inability to leave
• Angola video  and
• Note-taking:  Al Jazeera slavery
• Reflection on class materials and article

Wednesday, March 23

• SOL testing

Monday, March 21

• Practice SOL multiple choice & conferences
• Review commonly-missed questions
• Grammar - mixed review
• Philosophical quotes - skeleton outlines
• Review rhetorical strategies
• Practice counter-arguments
• Advice: outline, make it up, check verbs, answer the question

Thursday, March 17

• Mateo present 
• Sentence corrections
• Practice SOL multiple choice & conferences

Tuesday, March 15

• Grammar practice - pronoun agreement; sentence corrections, verb choice
• Computer check: log in- sol password- test
• Practice SOL Part I (1-13) & conferences

Friday, March 11

• Downloading Java 
• Chapter presentations 
• Parallels to death of Jesus
• Discussing end of UTC
• Similarities/differences in modern immigration crisis

Wednesday, March 9

• Abstract prompts
• Discuss Christian imagery, end of UTC
• Mark 15
• Matthew 27:11 - 61
• Luke 22:39 - 53, 63-71;   23:26-56 
• John 19
• Homework:  "Young, Illegal, and Alone"

Monday, March 7

• Finish pop culture close readings
• Chapter summary presentations
• Examining rubric & anchor papers: A8, A14
• Homework: Ch 38-41, 44

Thursday, March 3

• Grammar: apostrophes
• SOL practice
• Responses to UTC
• At Uncle Tom's Cabin Door

Monday, Feb. 29

• Monday Musing #10
• Grammar: colons
• Chapter summaries, UTC discussion

Thursday, Feb. 25

• Climate Survey
• Comma & semi-colon quiz 
• Finish presentations (analogy)
• Reinforce logic types (pathos, syllogism, analogy)

Tuesday, Feb. 23

• Grammar: Semi-colon practice #11-20
• Finish Douglass reading assignment

Friday, Feb. 19

• Grammar: semi-colons
• Finish S@7/4
• Chapter summaries

Wednesday, Feb. 17

• Monday Musing #9 / grade conferences
• Grammar: Renamers
• Chapter summaries
• Slave on 4th of July pt. 1
• Homework: ch. 16, 18, 20

Thursday, Feb. 11

• Grammar: phrase/clause quiz; commas 

• Stowe was a feminist
• Comparing slave trading to images  #2 Holocaust deportations
• Slave restraint/punishment devices
• Homework: ch 11-12

Tuesday, Feb. 9

• Grammar: phrase & clause practice
• Paraphrasing practice
• What is feminism
• Declaration of Sentiments - what were the priorities of first wave feminists?
• Stowe was not a feminist

Friday, Feb. 5

• Grammar: phrases and clauses
• Discuss ch 5-7, rhet strategies
• Eliza's escape at the movies 
• Ch 8 presentation
• compromise of 1850;
• Homework: Ch 9-10

Wednesday, Feb. 3

• Seasons presentation
• Discuss Ch 4. communion
•  Look at good examples from the homework 
• Was it a "last supper?" 
• Debate: was religion good or bad for slaves?
• Rhetorical strategies (pathos, ethos, logos)
• Escaped slave posters
• Homework: Ch 5-7; identify Rhet strats

 Monday,  Feb. 1

• Monday Musing #8: Communion
•  Finish communion activity, discuss
• Beginning Ch. 4
•  Homework: Ch 4, TECQAS paragraph on Communion

Thursday, January 28

• Example summary
• Sign up for chapter summaries
• Ch 2-3 discussion 
• Communion
• Discuss examples: Dinner party in Bean Trees, Eggs in Raisin, Dinner party in Gatsby, 

[snow break]

Wednesday,  Jan 20

• Minstrelsy
• Chapter I
• Chapter summary example
• Dialectical journals
• How to be a discussion leader

Thursday, Jan 13

• Listen to GatsBeats
• "Monday" musing
• Roman numerals competition
• The "N" word

Tuesday, Jan 11

• Roman numerals
• Intro to UTC
• The "N" word
• Finish GatsBeats

Week of  Jan 4: GatsBeats

Midterm exam: Thursday, Dec. 17, 9:00

Friday, Dec. 11

Wednesday, Dec. 9

Monday, Dec. 7

Thursday, Dec. 3
Ch. 5 vocab
Discuss ch. 2
Begin ch. 3
Intro to GatsBeats project

Tuesday, Dec. 1

• R20s presentations
• Ch 4 vocab quiz

Tuesday, Nov. 24

• R20s presentations

Friday, Nov. 20


Wednesday, Nov. 18

• Due: R20s hand-out
• Vocab quiz: TGG Ch. 3
• Summarize p 1-2
• Finish TGG Ch 1
• Vocab: TGG Ch. 4-5
• Talk about college

Monday, Nov. 16

• Monday Musing: TGG Ch. 1 phrases
• Read TGG Ch 1
• Homework: TECQAST paragraph, R20s hand-out

Thursday, Nov. 12

• Vocab: TGG Ch. 3
• Continue R20s research
• Homework: Read your chapter of LLAP, main ideas slide

Tuesday, Nov. 10

• Due: Tutoring receipt (optional), essay at 8 PM.
• Vocab quiz: TGG Ch 1-2
• Begin researching R20s topics.

Friday, Nov. 6

• Vocab: TGG Ch. 2
• Selecting research topics
• Drafting ARITS essays
• Revision: verb choice, forbidden words
• Essays are due Saturday at 8 PM.

Wednesday, Nov. 4

• Vocab: TGG Ch 1
• Drafting ARITS essays